Highlights from China Recruitment and Mobility Session at AIEA 2024

On February 21, Sunrise International COO David Weeks co-presented the session “Frameworks for Restarting and Reinvigorating US-China Education Exchanges” at the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The session was co-presented with Madame Xuesong Shen, the Minister Counselor of Education of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the USA, and Dr. Julie Whitlow, Vice Provost for Faculty and Global Engagement at Salem State University. This piece summarizes the highlights of the session.

Gavin Newton-TanzerFebruary 22, 2024AIEA, education, higher education marketing, international educationComment

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